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PATROL JUDGES. At Saratoga five patroljjudges have beeh appointed in addition to the one in service from the outset of the meeting. This is done in a determined effort to have the jockeys under strict surveillance at all points of a race and thereby practically do away with rough and foul riding. Commenting on the matter a letter from Saratoga to Daily, America of Monday says: "The determination of the stewards of the Saratoga meeting to immediately instituto a system of race supervision for the suppression of rough riding is generally applauded by turfmen and turf followers here. There has been more polo game work among our jockeys here than there was at any of the earlisr meetings. The chanoes of Acefull and Grantsdale in the United States Hotel Stakes and of Whiskey King in the Delaware Handicap on Saturday were ruined by the crowding and bumping they came in for. Poor little Arthur Redfern was so severely disabled by being carried into the fence on Whiskey King that he could not ride again during the afternoon. Col. James E. Peppor had to scratch his filly. Bounding Beauty, from the maiden race, which came last on the card. Redfern was in such pain he could not ride. Dublin, the horse Lucien Lyne rode in the Delaware, crowded Whiskey King into the fence at the turnout of the backstretch and Redferns left foot was caugnt between the Kan-taka colts side and the top rail. Several of his toes were bruisea. "Lyne acknowledged when called before the stewards that Dublin had been responsible for Red-ferns misfortune. The Atheling colt, he said, bore in on Whiskey King in spite of his Lynos efforts to keep him straight. He, no doubt, spoke the truth, and the action of the stewards in suspending him for four days was not popular. It was felt that they had picked out one of the cleanest and most inoffensive riders here to make an example of, after overlooking the rough work of a lot of notoriously rough young scapegraces. "The patrol scheme the Hon. William Collins Whitney suggested last week will probably be put into affect. The other members of the governing board of the Saratoga Association agree with Mr. Whitney tLat the best way to punish the reckless jockeys is to station watchers at various places along the course and accept their reports without question. Mr. Whitneys system would have been put in operation earlier if men qualified to undertake the onerous job had been available. " No man is more put out than Mr. Whitney over the recklessness of the jockeys here, and his own prize broncho buster, Master Tommy Burns, will feel the weight of Mr. Whitneys authority unless he mends his ways. If this scheme of a general patrol proves effective at Saratoga, there is little doubt that it will be adopted at tho metropolitan tracks. Some of the big stables will lose the. serv. ices of riders .they pay big salaries to, at times when jockeys aro most needed, but everything will work out fairly in tho end. There will not be so much acrimonious talk after the running of big stakes, and public form will become more reliable. So far as public form goes, rough riders are as dangerous as jockeys who pull horses. A horse may a3 wall be pulled as carried out at a turn or cut off at the start, or jammed against the rail in a drive through the homestretch."
